Interesting study. I'm not surprised by the conclusions. I'm not familiar with the researchers who conducted the study, but I follow Serpell and Udell's work. Again, not surprised they support the results.

This would fit into my Wolf Park thread...which I hope will help to compare/contrast wolves and domisticated dogs.

"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."

What I'd be really interested in hearing other behaviorists' commentary on is the impact of studying "created" packs not naturally occurring ones. Were the wolves relatives or unrelated? Were the dogs raised (ie, 'trained') by the researchers to have a specific hierarchy? Was the male-female ratio in both groups based on the ratio in real packs? And so on ;)